Mushroom-bullet.



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FILED sEPT.1o, 1913.

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Ox WM 771/? l UNITED STATES PATENT OEEiOE.

THOMAS C. JOHNSON, OF NEW HAVEN, CONNECTICUT, ASSIGNOR T0 WINCI-IESTER REPEATING .ARMS CO., 0F NEW HAVEN, CONNECTICUT, A CORPORATION.

'MUSHROOM-BULLET.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Jan. 6, 1914.

Application led September 10, 1913. Serial No. 789,056.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, THOMAS ORossLEY JOHNSON, a citizen of the United States, residing at New Haven, in the county of New Haven and State of Connecticut, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Mushroom-Bullets; and I do hereby declare the following, when taken in connection with the accompanying drawings and the characters vof reference marked thereon, to be a full, clear, and exact description of the same, and which said drawings constitute` part of this application, and represent, in

Figure l, a view in side elevation of a mushroom bullet constructed in accordance with my invention. Fig. 2, a central longitudinal section, the tip with its anchor being shown in full lines.

My invention relates to an improvement in solid-tip mushroom bullets, the object be* ing to produce at a low cost, a superior bullet of the character described.

VWith these ends in view my invention consists in a mushroom bullet having certain details of construction as will be hereinafter described and pointed out in the claim.

In carrying out my invention as herein shown, I employ a tip, 2, having a concentric tapering anchor, 3, formed with slightly concaved side walls, 4, and furnished with a circumferential retaining rib, 5, the entire anchor vbeing embedded in the soft metal core, 6, which is inclosed in a jacket, 7, the edge of `which rests upon the base of the anchor, 3, ciose to the line, 8, where the same merges into the tip, 2.

It will be noticed by reference to Fig. 2, that the edge of the jacket is brought to bear upon the surface of the anchor, 3, at the base thereof but is not hooked thereinto, the entire anchorage of the point being in the soft metal of the core. I have shown the anchor, 3, provided with but one rib, 5, but a plurality of such ribs might be employed. In this bullet there is no space left between the inner corner of the solid tip and the edge of the jacket. In using this bullet, the impact causes the wedgeshaped anchor to violently disrupt the core and jacket and spread it uniformly in opposite directions.

I claim:

In a sharp-nosed, solid-point, mushroom bullet, cylindrical at its rear end and tapering to a point at its forward end, the combination with a soft metal core, of a jacket swaged thereupon and tapering at its forward end, and a solid, conical tip projecting beyond the jacket and continuing the lines thereof to a sharp point and formed with a concentric tapering anchor embedded in the forward portion of the core and merging at its base into the inner end or corner of the exposed portion of the tip, the said tapered base of the anchor resting directly upon the eXtreme edge of the jacket for spreading the same apart at the moment of impact when the point with its anchor is te-lescoped within the jacket and core, disrupting the same.

In testimony whereof, I have signed this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

' THOMAS O. JOHNSON.

Witnesses:

FRANK A. PAUL, LOVELL H. PAGE.

Copies o! this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents,

' Washington, '.D. C. 

